10. Secure, Der. se (as in se-paro) cura, without care. I do not lay aside anxiety on account of the discrepancy in the accounts.

12. In fearful sense, in feeling fearful,

15. The Turks tried to recover Cyprus (which they had lost
a century before) in 1570.

17. By, about.

18. If we put the statement to the test of common sense, we
cannot believe it. Pageant, a mock, or show, Der. Latin
pagina, page, in later times the scaffold on which mysteries
were acted. Root, pag, to fasten.

22-3. Not only is it more important but he can bear (ferre)
the business more easily — win the place.

24. It is not so well fortified.

33. Ottomites, derived from Othman, or Osman, founder of
the Turkish empire in A.D. 1299.

52. Good your grace. The possessive adjective is really
combined with the noun, as in monsieur.

57. Engluts, French engloutir, to swallow.

61. Mountebank, a quack doctor, one who mounts a bench
to puff his wares.

131. The hemistich adds to the effect of the enumeration by
giving the actor time to think over the list.

139. Portance. (French porter.) My bearing.

140. Antres, caves. Idle, wild.

141. Quarries, Der. quadraria, the place where the blocks
are squared.

143. Cannibal, corruption of Caribal, Caribbean.

145. Raleigh gave an account of such men in his Description of Guiana, 1596.

154. By parcels, by small portions.

173. Make the best of a bad business.

176. If she admits that she met him half-way, then I blame
him no more.

199. Like yourself, either briefly, or as your case demands.
Lay a sentence, pronounce a maxim, which he proceeds to
do in rhyming verse, in sententious couplets.

200. Grise, a step.

209. Bootless, useless.

210. So, upon that theory.

213. Free, cheap.

214. Who, to get rid of pressing grief, has to draw upon his
stock of patience.

217. These maxims cut both ways.

219. Piercing would not be a remedy for a bruise, so that we
must take the word as meaning merely reached.

222. Fortitude, the strength.

225. Opinion that overawes all plans and their results.

227. To slubber, obscure, slur over.

232. I admit that difficulty brings out quickness of action,
which is natural to me.

238. Due arrangement as to her home and allowance. Exhibition in this sense still so used at the Universities.

245. Prosperous, propitious.

249. To live. Understand enough.

250. Downright, uncontrolled. For storm the first Quarto
has scorne, which Johnson accepted.

260. By. The idea of instrumentality passes into causality —
because of.

265. Proper satisfaction, self-gratification.

267. Defend, prevent that you should think.

269. For, because.

270. Seel, to close the eyes. Originally a term of falconry.

271. i.e. my eyes.

272. Disports, amusements.

273. Skillet, small pot. From Latin scutella, a small dish.

274. May my reputation be damaged by all attacks, however base.

290. Delighted, here for delightful, as in Cymbeline, v. 4,
102 — "To make my gift the more delayed, delighted."

294. Brabantio's unnatural pique belies his daughter's
chastity. The disobedience in eloping was severely punished,
but her subsequent story about the handkerchief was not the
deliberate attempt to conceal the truth, and did not really
touch the constancy of her heart.

306. Incontinently, immediately.

307. Roderigo, another dupe of Iago's, differs from Othello
in this, that the latter never suspects honest Iago, the former
is constantly suspicious that he is being cheated, and is as
constantly satisfied, notwithstanding the grossest indications
that should have put him on his guard.

313. Iago's comparative youth is a touch in the picture. So young, yet so utterly unable to believe in the existence of goodness, even in Desdemona, pure as Dian's visage. "All things
are to him common and unclean." — Gervinus.

321. Fond, foolish. Virtue, power.

322, sq. To Iago reason alone is the measure of things. He
is one of those beings whose brains have become sharp with
the hardening of their hearts. In this passage he poses as the
sceptic who ignores any higher constraint of the passions than
that supplied by the reason and the will.